Meaning of potional | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to potions.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“To the question⟳, ‘What [is] the person killed?’ is written the reply⟳: / It must be a person in rerum natura. If a woman quick with child take⟳ a potion to kill⟳ it, and accordingly it is destroyed without being born alive, a great misprision, but no felony; but if born alive, and after dies of that potion, it is murder⟳. […] In contrast to cl. 1 it prohibited attempts to procure abortion before quickening, and its prohibition on potional abortion embraced ‘any medicines, drug, or other substance or thing whatsoever’. […] As early as 1810, Ellenborough’s Act was criticised by the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for failing to prohibit instrumental abortion after quickening, while punishing with death the use⟳ of potional means, which were less effective. […] Again, in 1846 Taylor’s Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, referring to potional abortion, stated that it could not be doubted that the crime was very frequent, adding: ‘Applications are continually made to druggists by the lower classes for drugs for this purpose.[…]’. […] Similarly, the words ‘or other noxious and destructive substance or thing’ in cl. 1 would appear⟳ to be confined to potional methods.”

“The hallmark of the archetypal love⟳ story of Tristan and Isolde has always been the magic potion which brings them together and binds them into a socially defiant love⟳. […] But minimization if not negation of such potional power leads to dilution of the motif in the Tristan en prose and Malory’s Morte Darthur. In what follows, I want⟳ to examine⟳ a few examples of and to suggest⟳ reasons for this potional impotence in these works.”

““[…] I’ve heard tell⟳ of a potion that can heal ordinarily fatal wounds if ingested in time. I know⟳ for a fact that a potional vaccine for tetanus is now available, and there is a rumor one has been made against bubonic plague.” […] “Say⟳, is that the entire collection of The Comprehensive Guide⟳ to Medicinal and Potional Uses of the Flowers of the British Isles?””

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